"But to do it in such a pressure game, and to do it in the manner we did, where we kept our composure, we kept working hard, we kept the scoreboard ticking over, we did a lot of really good things.

"It's just rewards for the efforts the players have put in."

And Baxter said the win means the club has met one of their pre-season ambitions.

"We've challenged them to say 'if you're ambitious you come through these games' and I think they did that remarkably well," he added.

"I'm just so pleased for the players. They've achieved something that they really set out to achieve at the start of the season by pushing through this competition to go at least one stage further and perhaps a bit more."